Measles

…supports vaccination and control of measles and rubella in humans and/or foot-and-mouth disease in livestock, developing general methods for spatially targeted surveillance and reactive vaccination and tailoring them with in-country partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and elsewhere. Scholars join the Center for Infectious Dis

…Society for Virology meeting about measles persistence in the brain. They discuss selection for highly fusogenic viral variants when usual measles receptors are absent, neuron-to-neuron spread, and the development of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare, fatal delayed complication of measles infection.